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Thursday, April 18, 2013

A Poem by Tom Hatch

Tapestry

The afternoon of the new born
fawn

Climbing skinny unfolded legs

Up rocky hilly pattern of weave
Wanting a leap back into the womb
Drawn possibly by Aubrey
Beardsley
Umbilical cord swirls illustrated
Hoofs becoming dirty earthly
Strident with life sees
the filtered lightOf the forest The taste of mothers
milkFeeble to strength in the spring
toHigh summers grasses brown
spotted blending Camouflaged in the landscape of the hunting
wolfsher fear to go has turned survival stayed
standingIn the dusty fibers of the tapestry my
grandmother Left me Now on the floor next to the
bedHearing the wolves chewing bones filled with
marrowIn my to sleep every night woven from my
grandmother's dreamsWolves surrounding the frightened
fawnStill there in the morning
stepping somedayOver crushed, broken, gnarled bones
thatCannot be sustained forever lying
on the bedroom floorAs the fibers break down the wolves get
closer to the fawn everyday

Tom Hatch paid his dues in the SoHo art scene in the 70s, 80s and 90s. He was awarded
two NEA grants for sculpture back then. And taught at various colleges and
universities in the NYC metro area in art including Princeton U. He is a regular
at The Camel Saloon and BoySlut. He had recently published The Mind[less] Muse.
He lives in CT with a few farms up and down the road works in Manhattan. His
train ride to and from NYC is his solace, study and den where it all begins and
ends.

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A.J. Huffman has published thirteen full-length poetry collections, fourteen solo poetry chapbooks and one joint poetry chapbook through various small presses. Her most recent releases, The Pyre On Which Tomorrow Burns (Scars Publications), Degeneration (Pink Girl Ink), A Bizarre Burning of Bees (Transcendent Zero Press), and Familiar Illusions (Flutter Press) are now available from their respective publishers. She is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time Best of Net nominee, and has published over 2600 poems in various national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, The Bookends Review, Bone Orchard, Corvus Review, EgoPHobia, and Kritya. She is the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press.